Word: minding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: The quality of "modesty" in your correspondent Alphonse J. Miller who is shocked at the beautiful figure of a "Zig" comes from a mind morally diseased. As soon as I read the letter, I fished up the number (Dec. 17) and studied the figure more closely and with greater pleasure. In fact, I am not ashamed to say that I think so much of the beauty of the perfect human form that I never take a bath without a long and admiring look at my own form in its perfect proportions. Not one part...
...disagree. In the particular school with which I am connected, the Headmaster has advised the parents of many times twelve boys against planning a liberal arts education for their sons. In several instances boys have been directed toward other fields more practical to their particular types of mind, and of these some few have later become highly successful. So it is not new to schools "to apply a hard yet merciful rule of college-education for the fittest...
...called on to be an In dian, a cowboy. The fishing, which he had rediscovered the summer before, was some compensation, but there were several incidents that caused him, frayed as he was, to speak sharply to Mrs. Coolidge. She was glad when he made up his mind ("I do not choose . . ." etc.) about a question on which she had stitched her opinion six months earlier, in the famed bedspread inscribed: "Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865" "Calvin Coolidge...
...Carnegie Hall, as if for Kreisler or Paderewski, a great crowd gathered. Its chief motive seemed to be curiosity. Its reward was an exhibition of incredibly bad singing. But few seemed to mind. The bulk of the audience applauded loudly, encouraged the kittenish Walska ways, the heaving surface sorrows, until the few real friends of music present were as mortified for their fellow listeners as for the performer...
...lingering guest. At the moment it was the Montmorencys who lingered: she because of Danielstown itself-"doorways had framed a kind of expectancy of her; some trees in the distance, the stairs, a part of the garden, seemed always to have been lying secretly at the back of her mind"-and he because of Marda Norton. Marda was leaving next day, to visit her fiance in Kent. Meanwhile she walked with Montmorency- and Lois-along the river toward a deserted mill...